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Care Matters

Concepts, Practice and Research in Health and Social Care
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The contributors to this volume examine the meaning of care, considering how "good" care can be defined and evaluated. The authors identify common ground in the diversity of those giving and receiving care, particularly concerns about personal empowerment, choice, self esteem and the balance between independence, interdependence and dependency. The contributors emphasize the importance of learning directly from the experiences of giving and receiving care, and the caution to be exercised in extrapolating general principles.
Introduction - Ann Brechin Living in Residential Care - Dorothy Atkinson Discovering the Present in Stories about the Past - John Adams, Joanna Bornat and Mary Prickett Terminal Care or Terminal Carelessness - Jeanne Katz Young Carers - Stan Tucker and Penny Liddiard Care, Support or Something Else? - Jill Reynolds and Jan Walmsley Normality and Disabling Care - John Swain and Sally French Treatment or Tender Loving Care - Moyra Sidell Caring in Place - Sheila M Peace Caregiving,Carework and Professional Care - Celia Davies The Emergence of Care as a Policy - Julia Johnson Changing Health Care - Linda J Jones What Makes for Good Care - Ann Brechin
'The impact of [the] opening chapters, all of which include the recipient's perspective, is to raise awareness of issues to be discussed later in the book. The remaining chapters take a much more theoretical approach, but again raise improtant and current issues about the nature and context of caring. Each chapter provides a clear analysis of the debate from a particular theoretical perspective. Overall, I found the book interesting and challenging. [I]t does address very relevant and important issues and leaves the reader with a broader understanding of the nature of care and current debates about how that care should be provided. [T]he editors are able to draw out common issues and conceptualisations across a wide range of caring experiences and contexts - making the text relevant for all involved in care regardless of the context of client group. This is probably the book's main strength. By taking this approach the editors are able to relate theory and practice in a way that will have meaning for readers from different disciplines working in a variety of different caring contexts' - Quality in Ageing - Policy, Practice and Research
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